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EDWIN CHICK BURLEIGH 

( Late a Senator from Maine) 

MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 

DELIVERED IN THE SENATE 

AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OF THE UNITED STATES 

SIXTY-FOXJRTH CONGRESS 
SECOND SESSION 



Proceedings in the Senate 
February 18, 1917 



Proceedings in the House 
February 25, 1917 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Page 

Proceedings in the Senate - .5 

Prayer by Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, D.D 5 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. Charles F. Johnson, of Maine 9 

Mr. Jacob H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire 19 

Mr. Wesley L. Jones, of Washington 22 

Mr. Bert M. Fernald, of Maine 25 

Proceedings in the House 29 

Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 31 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. Frank E. Guernsey, of Maine 33 

Mr. John A. Peters, of Maine 38 

Mr. Halvor Steenerson, of Minnesota 45 

Mr. Richard W. Austin, of Tennessee 48 

Mr. John L. Burnett, of Alabama 50 

Mr. Daniel J. McGillicuddy, of Maine 53 

Mr. Julius Kahn, of California 57 



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HON.EDWTN C. BURLEIGH 



DEATH OF HON. EDWIN CHICK BURLEIGH 



Proceedings in the Senate 

Monday, June i9, 1916. 
The Chaplain, Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, D. D., offered 
the following prayer: 

Almighty God, we come to Thee not with costly oblation 
or with bleeding sacrifice. We come, we trust, with an 
humble and contrite spirit, lifting up our hearts to Thee 
for Thy blessing. We remember Thy goodness to us as a 
Nation. We acknowledge the infinite debt of gratitude 
we are under to Thee. 

Since we have met together Thou hast called into the 
great beyond an honored Member of this Senate. We 
thank God for the long life of service that he has given 
to his country. We thank Thee that in departing he has 
left us with the inspiration of a noble and pure life and 
that he has left the benediction of faithful service to his 
own State. We thank Thee for his faith. We pray that 
being dead lie may yet speak, and that the influence of a 
life unsoiled by contact with the great issues of state may 
remain with us as a joy and an inspiration. 

We pray Thy blessing upon our country to-day. Lay 
Thy hand upon this land. Grant, we pray, that the time 
may not come when blood must be shed. Grant that out 
of all the turmoil and strife, out of the fire that seems 
aflame in all the world. Thou wilt in Thy providence and 
grace lead us safely in peace and guide us on to greater 
achievement of peace in the future. For Christ's sake. 

Amen. 

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Mr. Clark of Wyoming. Mr. President, in the absence 
of the Senator from Maine [Mr. Johnson], and at his 
request, it becomes my sorrowful duty to announce to 
the Senate the death of the junior Senator from that 
State, which occurred at his home in Augusta, Me., on 
Friday last. 

At some future time the Senate will be asked to lay aside 
its ordinary business in order that tribute may be paid to 
the life, character, and public services of Mr. Burleigh. 
For the present I offer the following resolutions, for which 
I ask immediate consideration. 

The Vice President. The Secretarj' will read the reso- 
lutions. 

The resolutions (S. Bes. 214) were read, considered 
by unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as 
follows : 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of the Hon. Edwin C. Burleigh, late a Senator from the 
State of Maine. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
lutions to the House of Representatives. 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
the deceased the Senate do now adjourn. 

The Senate thereupon (at 12 o'clock and 5 minutes 
p. m.) adjourned until to-morrow, Tuesday, June 20, 1916, 
at 12 o'clock meridian. 



Tuesday, June 20, 1916. 
Mr. Myers. The Senator from Arizona [Mr. Ashurst], 
the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. Marline], the Senator 
from Kentucky [Mr. Beckham], the Senator from Colo- 
rado [Mr. Thomas], and the Senator from Maine [Mr. 
Johnson] are absent on official business as the committee 
on the part of the Senate to attend the funeral of the late 
Senator from Maine, Mr. Burleigh. 

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Proceedings in the Senate 



Thursday, January 11, 1917- 
Mr. Kern. Mr. President, I desire to give notice that on 
Saturday, the 17th day of February, 1917, immediately 
after tlie routine morning business, the Senate will be 
asked to consider resolutions in commemoration of the 
life, character, and public services of Senator Benjamin 
F. Shively, of Indiana; of Senator Edwin C. Burleigh, 
of Maine; and of Senator James P. Clarke, of Arkansas. 



Thursday, February 15, 1917. 
Mr. Robinson. Mr. President, some days ago the Senator 
from Indiana [Mr. Kern] gave notice that on Saturday, the 
17th day of February, 1917, immediately after the routine 
morning business, he would ask the Senate to consider 
resolutions in commemoration of the life, character, and 
public services of the late Senator Benjamin F. Shively, 
of Indiana; the late Senator Edwin C. Burleigh, of Maine; 
and of the late Senator James P. Clarke, of Arkansas. A 
conference has been held by Senators from the States of 
Indiana, Maine, and Arkansas, and at the suggestion of 
the Senator from Indiana [Mr. Kern] and other Senators, 
and for the convenience of Senators I submit a request 
for unanimous consent, as follows: 

That the Senate convene on Sunday, February 18, 1917, at 11 
o'clock a. m., to consider resolutions in commemoration of the 
life, character, and public services of the late Senator Benjamin 
F. Shively, of Indiana; the late Senator Edwin G. Burleigh, of 
Maine; and the late Senator James P. Clarke, of Arkansas. 

The Presiding Officer (Mr. Beckham in the chair). 
Is there objection to the unanimous-consent agreement? 
The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. 



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Sunday, Fehnmrij 18. 1917. 
(Legislative day of Wednesday, February li, 1917.) 
The Senate reassembled at 11 o'clock a. ni., on the expi- 
ration of the recess. 

Mr. Johnson of Maine. Mr. President, in pursuance of 
the notice heretofore given, I offer the resolutions which 
I send to the desk, and ask for their adoption. 
The Vice President. The resolutions will be read. 
The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of the Hon. Edwin C. Burleigh, late a Senator from th« 
State of Maine. 

Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the 
deceased the business of the Senate be now suspended to enable 
his associates to pay proper tribute to his high cliaracter and 
distinguished public services. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the 
family of the deceased. 



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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 



Address of Mr. Johnson, pf Maine 

Mr. President: Hon. Edwin Chick Burleigh was born 
in Linneus, Me., November 27, 1843. His parents were 
Parker Prescott and Caroline Chick Burleigli. His grand- 
father, Moses Burleigh, moved from Sandwich, N. H., to 
Palermo, Me., in the early part of the nineteenth century, 
and in 1830 moved from Palermo to Linneus, Me. He 
was a prominent man in his section and a lieutenant 
colonel of the militia. In the War of 1812 he was captain 
of a militia company and represented his district in the 
Massachusetts General Court and in the Maine Legisla- 
ture. 

The father of Senator Burleigh, Parker Prescott Bur- 
leigh, was born at Palermo, May 16, 1812. He was a 
farmer and land surveyor, and held many town offices, 
was a member of the Maine House of Representatives for 
two terms and of the Maine Senate for four terms, and in 
1868 was elected State land agent. 

Edwin C. Burleigh was educated in the public schools 
and in Houlton Academy, where he took the college 
preparatory course, but he early became interested in his 
father's calling of surveying, and instead of carrying out 
his purpose of entering college he studied surveying, as- 
sisting himself while pursuing his studies by teaching 
school. 

At the call for troops in 1861 he enlisted in the District 
of Columbia Cavalry, but was rejected by the examining 
surgeon and entered the adjutant general's office at 
Augusta, Me., as a clerk, which position he filled until the 
close of the war. He then followed the occupation of land 

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surveying, and in 1876, 1877, and 1878 was State land agent 
and during the same years assistant clerk of the house of 
representatives. In 1880 he was appointed clerk in the 
State treasurer's office, elected State treasurer in 1885, and 
governor of his State in 1888, and reelected in 1890. 

He was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress from the third 
Maine district, and was reelected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty- 
seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first 
Congresses. He was elected United States Senator by the 
Maine Legislature January 15, 1913, for the term begin- 
ning March 4, 1913, and died at Augusta, Me., June 16, 
1916. 

A mere recital of the many offices of trust held by Sen- 
ator Burleigh proves conclusively that he held the en- 
tire confidence of the people of his State, and the record 
is in itself a sufficient tribute to his worth and the high 
character of his public service. 

Mr. Burleigh was a man of great industry, who believed 
in the efficacy of hard work, and no one among the many 
illustrious men whom Maine has honored has accom- 
plished more by wisely taking advantage of every oppor- 
tunity presented for advancement, and every office that he 
filled he did so to the satisfaction of the people of his 
State. 

No man knew the needs of his State better than he and 
no man gave more generously of his services and his 
abilities for her upbuilding. In the minor positions of 
trust which he held he was an industrious, efficient, trust- 
worthy official, and won the commendation of all with 
whom he came in contact. 

He had the faculty of making friends and attaching 
them to him with bonds so strong that they were securely 
held. His manner was most courteous and sympathetic, 
and no man ever enjoyed doing a kindness for another 
more than he or derived greater satisfaction from such 

acts. 

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Address of Mr. Johnson, of Maine 



As a result, at the very beginning of his public career 
he had loyal, earnest friends, whose attachment to him 
and interest in Ms advancement were remarkable. He 
had all the qualities of a good business man and was 
perfectly upright in all his transactions, and his word, 
when once given, could be absolutely relied upon. In his 
conduct of the offices of State treasurer and governor 
these same business qualifications displayed themselves 
and largely increased the regard which the people of his 
State had for him. 

He was not gifted with extraordinary brilliancy nor pos- 
sessed of genius, but he used faithfully, persistently, and 
honestly the abilities with which he was endowed. His 
administration of the State as governor was marked by 
his careful attention to all details, and as he was most 
democratic in his manner, approachable, and sympathetic, 
the people of Maine found in him a public servant whose 
doors were always open and to whom the most humble 
could apply. 

Under his administration an attempt was made to re- 
move the capital of the State from Augusta to Portland, 
which he strongly resisted, with success. A large appro- 
priation was made for the enlargement of the statehouse, 
and he was made the chairman of the commission which 
gave to Maine a finely equipped and commodious State 
capitol. 

His attention was attracted to the needs of the militia 
of Maine, and he advocated and, by the influence of his 
great office, obtained the purchase of a permanent militia 
ground in the capital of the State, where the citizen sol- 
diery could meet once a year. 

He observed the needs of the State for larger accom- 
modations for the unfortunate insane and strenuously 
advocated the building of another asylum for them in 
the eastern part of the State, and as a result of his efforts 



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the Eastern Maine Hospital for the Insane, at Bangor, 
was established. 

It had become apparent that there was a great discrep- 
ancy between the valuation of property in our State for 
the purposes of State taxation and the valuation placed 
upon it by agents of the Federal Government. He there- 
fore advocated the creation of a valuation commission, 
which should study the question of valuation in the State 
of Maine, and strongly advocated the appointment of a 
board of State assessors, which should take under con- 
sideration values in the State and report to the State leg- 
islature the results of their investigation. He strongly 
advocated the passage of the Australian ballot system, 
although many in his party opposed it. 

During his administration as governor, by his wise busi- 
ness administration, the public debt of Maine, which had 
borne interest at 6 per cent, was refunded at 3 per cent 
and a large saving made to the taxpayers of Maine. His 
mind was alert and fdled with the sense of his obligation 
to the people who had intrusted him with a responsible 
position, and his conduct of the affairs of his State with 
which he, as the supreme executive of the State, was con- 
nected was entirely satisfactorj' to her citizens. 

He was always a sincere friend to the old soldier, and 
under his administration as governor the appropriations 
of the State for their relief were increased to nearly twice 
their previous amount. 

His administration of the various State offices to which 
he had been appointed and elected so inspired his people 
with confidence in his integrity and ability, and they had 
become so attached to his democratic manners and care- 
ful attention to their varying needs that the people of his 
district, although ably represented in Congress, called for 
his candidacy for the nomination for Congress in 1892. 
He was defeated in this contest but gave loyal support to 
the nominee, Hon. Seth L. Milliken. 

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Address of Mr. Johnson, of Maine 



His loyal support of Mr. Milliken after this heated con- 
troversy won for him the commendation of the members 
of his party, and at Mr. Milliken's death, in 1897, he was 
nominated and elected as his successor. He was now 
chosen to represent the district so singularly represented 
by Mr. Blaine for many years, the old third Maine district. 
He had won his way by hard work, loyal support of its 
friends, and a clean public record. 

He came to Washington a man but little past middle 
life, of splendid physique and unlimited capacity for 
work. He was not an orator, but he gave his great energy 
and his unlimited capacity for work to the service of his 
constituents. Maine has had many brilliant men to serve 
Jier in the Halls of Congress, but never one who surpassed 
Senator Burleigh in his capacity for work and in his de- 
sire to serve the humblest of his constituents. 

I think he gained greater satisfaction from being of 
service to one of his constituents than the recipient ever 
experienced in the enjoyment of what was obtained for 
him. He assiduously cultivated his acquaintance with all 
of his constituents and encouraged their frequent com- 
munication with him. As a result he had most firmly the 
attachment of all the members of his party in his district, 
and by his broad generosity he had attached to himself 
the support of many of his opponents. 

And thus, through a long congressional career, which 
began in 1897 and did not end until the close of the Sixty- 
first Congress on March 4, 1911, he held the people of his 
district in most loyal support, not by the brilliancy of his 
career, but by his honest, earnest, and sincere attachment 
to their interests. 

In 1910 he suffered the first defeat he ever experienced 
at the polls; but it came when his party in Maine met, the 
first time since 1880, a defeat in their State election. The 
result was not a defeat of himself individually, but it was 
a defeat of the whole party; and as a loyal member of it 

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he went down with it. None of his friends and very 
few of his opponents expected his defeat; but under the 
form of ballot which Maine had adopted party defeat 
meant individual defeat. 

He had to such a degree won the confidence of his party 
in the State that when it became necessary to nominate 
in the State-wide primary for the first time a candidate 
for the United States Senate, in 1912, he won easily in the 
contest, although opposed by men of great attainments; 
one of them an ex-justice of the supreme court of his 
State and the other a lawyer whose great ability as an 
eloquent advocate and also as a man of broad sympathies 
and the liighest intellectual development had marked him 
as one of the leaders of thought and directors of public 
opinion in the State. 

Having won his nomination for the Senate, he entered 
with his usual vigor upon the conduct of his campaign, 
directing his efforts to carrying the close congressional dis- 
tricts of his State. He was successful; and although the 
legislature which was elected, in its political complexion, 
was the closest in the history of the State, he won the elec- 
tion to a seat in this body by the narrow margin of one 
vote. 

The energy and persistency with which he conducted 
his candidacy for his election have never been equaled 
in a political contest in the State, and without the supreme 
loyalty of most sincere friends he could not have been 
elected. 

He came to the Senate a sick man. The great contest 
through which he had passed had paralyzed his magnifi- 
cent bodily energies, for he had given to his candidacy the 
best that was in him, and nature must have her way. Of 
this he had thought little, because in his splendid equip- 
ment he had known nothing of disease or of sickness. 
Work had been his pastime; success had been his reward. 



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Address of Mr. Johnson, of Maine 



I saw him when he came to take his oath of office in 
1913. My acquaintance with him had been limited, 
although my home from birth had been only 20 miles from 
the capital where he had long resided, but I had been a 
lawyer, devoted to my profession, and of another politi- 
cal faith. Consequently we had not been brought in 
contact with each other, but I saw him close to when he 
had come with his devoted wife and daughters, who so 
atiectionately followed his footsteps, to take upon him- 
self his oath of office in this Chamber. 

I gladly went to him when I learned of his presence in 
this city, and found him in intense suffering. He had 
come here feeling that he must be present to have the 
oath of office administered to him at the commencement 
of his term on March 4, 1913, and had arranged to submit 
to a surgical operation as soon as he had received his oath. 

My first acquaintance began with him then, when he 
lay upon his bed of sickness, but the first hand grasp 
between us disclosed that we had an intimate bond of 
connection. I admired his courage, his high sense of 
public duty, and his determination in spite of physical 
disease to discharge the duties which he believed he had 
assumed. I attempted to make easy for him the assump- 
tion of these duties, and I never received greater satisfac- 
tion in my public life than I did from his sincere ac- 
knowledgment of his gratification at what he termed my 
courtesy. 

He went from the Senate Chamber, after taking his 
oath, to a bed of sickness and pain and hovered between 
life and death for several weeks, cared for by his devoted 
and loving wife. I heard from him often, and when he 
rallied and was able to leave the hospital where he had 
been treated the people of my State rejoiced that one who 
had served them so faithfully and long had been restored 
to their service. 



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He came back to assume his duties here, but disease and 
inexorable fate had placed their stamp upon lum. With 
indomitable courage and a high sense of duty he at- 
tempted to discharge what his conscientious regard for 
service had always taught him, that there should be a 
return for what was rendered him. I grew to have a most 
atlectionate regard for him as I observed his fine traits of 
character, the breadth of his mind, and his consideration 
for others, including myself. 

His service here was too short for Senators to learn his 
lovable disposition, his ability for public service, and his 
loyal devotion to the interests of his countrj'. Fate had 
made me his senior in this Chamber although I was inex- 
perienced as compared with his larger participation in 
public affairs, but he most readily accorded me full sup- 
port in all measures which concerned our State. 

That energy and physical health which had enabled 
him to be of such important service to his State while a 
Member of the lower House of Congress had failed him, 
but his desire to be of service, his loyalty to his State, and 
his interest in the welfare of both State and Nation, were 
still the guiding, controlling influences of his life. 

Thus 1 saw him and grew to love him and I believe that 
my affection was reciprocated. I come now to pay the 
honest tribute of a sincere friend who has had an op- 
portunity to see the inner life of a conscientious public 
servant. 

No tribute to Senator Burleigh would be complete \\ith- 
out mentioning that supreme test of a man's life — the ver- 
dict rendered upon him in his home and among those 
bound to him by ties of blood. He was most fortunate in 
having chosen as his companion for life a woman of re- 
markable energy, strength of character, and traits which 
go to make up the wife and mother. In her, nature had 
joined all these, and she was to him a helpmeet indeed. 

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Addkess 01- Mr. Johnson, of Maine 



Her great intellectual ability supplemented his, and to- 
gether they fought the battle of life on fully equal terms, 
and if ever man had reason to thank heaven for having 
blessed him with a loyal wife Senator Burleigh was un- 
der that obligation. 

She entered with him into all his political contests and 
with the acumen of a woman's judgment weighed every 
political exigency. She was a true wife. Her heart was 
with her husband and with him it went with a loyal, lov- 
ing devotion that sustained and strengthened him in evei-y 
contest. She was of the best type of our New England 
women, reliant, strong, trustworthy, and loyal, and to a 
great measure his success was due to her ennobling in- 
fluence. 

The sons and daughters who grew up about them were 
splendid examples of New England's civilization. It has 
been my good fortune to know them all and to know that 
the heritage that they received from an honorable father 
and a loving mother has been most meritoriously pre- 
served. 

Senator Burleigh had achieved success in the political 
arena and in business life as well. He bore upon him- 
self the honors of an old State, conservative in her grants 
of favor. About him he had gathered, by his industry and 
his business sagacity, the fruits from a long life with 
troops of friends, the loving, affectionate service of a dear 
companion, and the most filial regard of sons and daugh- 
ters, whose children looked to him for endearing phrase 
and were ever the subject of his tender solicitation. Life 
had brought him in abundance of her treasures, and when 
he seemed most ready to enjoy them the inexorable call 
of fate called him, as it will each of us, to sever every tie. 

The wife who had been the companion at his side, who 
had planned with him, who had rejoiced with him at his 
successes, and who at his defeat had soothed him with her 

assurances of a deep regard was called from his side, and 

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when that summons came I knew the end was not far off 
for him, because nature had so linked their lives together 
that one could not long survive the other. 

He did not long survive her death, but dwelling in the 
gloom with gathering darkness over him death came to 
him on June 16, 1916, but a short time after that of his 
wife. We laid him at rest in the capital of our State, 
where he had so many friends, beside her broad, rolling 
Kennebec, in the city he loved, and near the capitol, the 
scene of so many political contests in which he was con- 
cerned. There came to mourn his loss not only the high 
and influential, but I marked those of lowly position and 
reverent mien, who came to show their devotion and to 
express their loss. 

His was a grand character, not because it rose in moun- 
tain peaks, upon which the eye rested, but rather because 
it was that of the undulating plain, steadfast and serene. 
He satisfied most because on the plain most dwell; on 
the mountain peak the idealist's vision rests. He was for 
the practical, the everyday, which brings into common 
life something that touches neighbor and friend, and as 
such he bore an abundant harvest. 

Maine has had men of genius showered in great abun- 
dance upon her, but never one who brought more of the 
sunlight into the home of the common, everyday citizen, 
and was more a friend to him in want, or did more to 
meet the demands upon him by friend, neighbor, and con- 
stituent than Senator Burleigh. 

In his long life, devoted to the public service, beginning 
with the boy of 18 years of age, to the close of his service 
as United States Senator in the seventy-third year of his 
life, through all the various offices of trust to which he 
had been elected and in which he had so faithfully served 
the people of his State, not one stain blots that official 
record. It is clean and does not now, and never will, need 
a defender. 

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Address of Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire 

Mr. President: Edwin Chick Burleigh was inj^ friend, 
and I loved him as a brother. He was a man of acknowl- 
edged ability, of the highest order of integrity, and the per- 
sonification of kindliness and courtesy. He was one of 
the most delightful of companions, and a man who could 
be relied upon at all times to do the just and honorable 
thing. My attachment to him was so deep and sincere 
that his death came to me in the nature of a personal be- 
reavement. In thinking of him and his rare qualities the 
lines of James Whitcomb Riley are recalled, as they illus- 
trate the feeling I had toward him : 

And so it is you cheer me, 

My old friend, 
For to know you and be near you, 

My old friend. 
Makes my hope of clearer light. 
And my faith of surer sight, 
And my soul a purer white, 
My old friend. 

Mr. Burleigh had made a great reputation in his State 
before engaging in the public service. He was a business 
man of large activities, owner and editor of an influen- 
tial newspaper, and governor of his State for three years. 
In every position to which he was called he discharged 
his duties with rare fidelity, becoming one of the most 
popular and influential men in the State of Maine. 

Mr. Burleigh entered the National House of Represent- 
atives in the Fifty-fifth Congress, having been chosen at 
a special election held June 21, 1897, to fill the vacancy 
caused by the death of Hon. Seth C. Milliken, and he im- 
mediately was recognized by his associates as a strong 
and useful Member of that body. 

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His first speech in the House was a eulogy on the life 
and character of Mr. Milliken, his predecessor. In that 
eulogy Mr. Burleigh said : 

I am fully conscious of the inadequacy of mere words, in time 
of deep bereavement, to voice the sentiments of the heart and 
speak the language of sorrow. 

And in those few words Mr. Burleigh expressed the 
feelings that those of us who knew him well feel to-day. 

Mr. Burleigh was an engaging speaker, quick in rep- 
artee, but he was a man — 

Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright. 
Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. 

His eulogy on Mr. Milliken closed with this quotation: 

THE DEATH CHANGE COMES 

Death is another life. We bow our heads 
At going out, we think, and enter straight 
Another golden chamber of the King's, 
Larger than this we leave, and loTelicr. 
And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnected. 
The story, flowerlike, closes thus its leaves. 
The will of God is all in all. He makes. 
Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure all. 

On June 15, 1898, Mr. Burleigh made a strong speech in 
favor of the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, saying 
that " Such a move will establish an ocean fortress for the 
protection of the great and growing interests of our Pa- 
citic coast and bring nothing but benefits to the American 
people." 

January 5. 1901, Mr. Burleigh made a notable speech on 
the apportionment bill then pending, in which he advo- 
cated an adequate representation " to keep pace in some 
degree with the growth of the country in population and 
material resources." 

After being in the House of Representatives for about 
13 years Mr. Burleigh became a Member of the Senate on 
March 4, 1913, and after a service covering a period of 
a little over three years he died June 16, 1916. He served 

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Address of Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire 

on important committees, and notwithstanding his health 
was greatly impaired during his entire service in the 
Senate he was faithful in committee work and attentive 
to his duties on the floor. He was a favorite on both sides 
of the Chamber, his affability and kindness of heart gain- 
ing him the good will and friendly regard of all with 
whom he came in contact. 

Mr. President, if it be true that the tomb is but the 
gateway to an eternity of opportunity, we can well be- 
lieve that our friend, the late Senator from Maine, freed 
from the shackles that beset us in this life, with greater 
opportunities and an enlarged vision is still engaged in 
shedding light and happiness upon those around him. 
He acted well his part in life, and is doubtless receiving 
the reward that comes to those who deserve the appella- 
tion of " Well done, good and faithful servant." Of him 
it may well be said, in the words of a Massachusetts poet: 
So when a great man dies, 

For years beyond our ken, 
The light he leaves behind him lies 

Upon the paths of men. 

Senator Burleigh is gone, but the memory of his good 
deeds should be an inspiration and a help to those of us 
who are left behind. Let us emulate his virtues, and 
endeavor to meet all the vicissitudes of life with the same 
philosophical calmness and lofty purposes which char- 
acterized our late associate and friend. 



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Address of Mr. Jones, of Washington 

Mr. President: I come to pay a simple, heartfelt tribute 
to my friend, whose memory is an inspiration and a bene- 
diction to me. The world may have forgotten him. It 
soon forgets if it ever remembers us. It keeps in mind 
only those great figures which spring from some great 
cataclysm or epoch-making event and tower above the 
landscape of the world's progress with centuries rolling 
between. This, however, will not discourage anyone who 
looks upon life from the viewpoint of humanity. We may 
not command the world's attention through the centuries, 
but we can live in grateful remembrance in some human 
heart long after our bodies are dust and our spirits have 
passed to the great beyond. 

There are events in our lives that make lasting impress 
upon mind and heart. Their memory lasts through the 
years and they become sweeter as the days go by. They 
may seem small in themselves and yet be priceless in 
their effects. They make us better men and life more 
worth living. 

My public service began with the Fifty-sixth Congress. 
It was my good fortune to draw a seat next to Edwin C. 
Burleigh. He sat on my left. I do not remember who 
sat on my right. 

I was a stranger and a now Member in one of the 
branches of the greatest lawmaking body in the world. 
I may have attached too much importance to my presence 
in that body. I was soon made to feel that there were 
others there who knew something and felt their responsi- 
bility. Mr. Burleigh had served in the preceding Con- 
gress. He no doubt knew my feelings, but not by word or 
act did he make me feel it. He was so kind, so consid- 

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Address of Mr. Jones, of Washington 

erate, and so sympathetic that he won my high regard 
and lasting gratitude. I trusted him unconsciously. I 
came to him freely and naturally for advice and help. 
He was so tactful and so kind and so helpful that I was 
saved from many a humiliation. I did not see it then, 
but I saw it afterwards, and this fact makes his memory 
more precious to me. He did not treat me differently 
from others; this was his character. He did these kind 
and gentle things without apparent thought, and yet he 
was so tactful in it all that one knew the head was direct- 
ing the heart in a sincere and unselfish way that he might 
be most helpful without being obtrusive. 

He was not a showy Member of Congress, but he was a 
faithful and efficient Representative of his people. Their 
interests were his interests, and he looked after them to 
the minutest detail. While others were speaking to but 
little purpose except to attract attention, he was doing 
things. While others were entertaining the galleries with 
fulsome platitudes, he was doing things for his constit- 
uents by his work before committees and by following up 
and pressing the matters of interest to them in a quiet, per- 
sistent, and effective way. He measured his success by 
the results and not by his oratory. 

One instance of his quiet but effective work comes to 
mind. After the census of 1900 congressional apportion- 
ment and representation came up in the House. It was 
proposed to reduce the membership of the House. This 
plan would have reduced Maine's representation. Mr. 
Burleigh took the lead in the quiet, effective, organized 
opposition to this measure. It was defeated, and he was 
more responsible for its defeat than anyone else. 

Mr. President, this is but a feeble and imperfect tribute 
to a very dear friend. The orator may be reaisonably well 
satisfied with his rounded sentences, well-chosen words, 
and fitting climaxes upon some lofty theme, but words 
fail, they are empty things, when one attempts to pay 

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fitting tribute to a friend. This is my feeling now. 
Edwin C. Burleigh was my dear and good friend. He was 
a faithful Representative, a loyal, tactful friend, a real, 
kindly gentleman, and a genuine, true man. The world is 
better for his life, and there are many to whom his mem- 
ory is and will continue to be an inspiration and a bene- 
diction. 



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Address of Mr. Fernald, of Maine 

Mr. President: The kindly, generous tribute which has 
just been paid to Senator Burleigh by my distinguished 
colleague is, I am pleased to believe, characteristic of 
American politics. 

In life we struggle for the principles we cherish, urged 
on by the incentive of ambition; but when death claims 
one of our number we bow to the inevitable and together 
mourn the loss. 

Nothing can be added to the biographical sketch of 
Edwin C. Burleigh so eloquently spoken by my colleague. 
Born almost in a wilderness, far from city or town, he 
labored on a farm as other boys have done, but with a 
determination to become useful. He endured much to 
gain an education and to qualify himself for those posi- 
tions of honor which he was to hold in after life. 

To achieve success is the duty of every man and woman 
in America, and the accomplishment of it is possible to 
all who are willing to pay the price in patience, perse- 
verance, temperance, economy, hard work, and faith in 
the future. Senator Burleigh possessed all these virtues, 
and having a splendid physique was able to accomplish 
much which would have been impossible to one of less 
sturdy frame. 

Mr. BuRLEiGH~Was successful in all his undertakings as 
a business man; his splendid judgment, his careful at- 
tention to every detail, his rugged honesty, his unfailing 
loyalty made him the trusted leader of the pioneers who 
in his early years were beginning to develop the mar- 
velous resources of the great county of Aroostook, where 
he was born. And that confidence placed in him by his 
early companions was never shaken. 

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No man stood higher in the esteem of his associates 
than did Edwin C. Birleigh. From his early advent into 
public life he manifested that same interest in State and 
national affairs that had made him so successful in all his 
business activities. The same love of truth; the same un- 
swerving loyalty; the same fidelity to his constituents was 
ever present and paramount during his entire public 
service. Senator Burleigh could always be depended 
upon to do his full duty and do it well. His conscience 
was ever his guide, and to do right his great ambition. 

As treasurer of our State Mr. Burleigh was a careful, 
painstaking, and trusty official; and the books of the de- 
partment during his term of office are models of neatness 
and accuracy. 

As governor of our State he was admired not only for 
his great ability as an executive — and his administration 
will go down in history as one of the best our good State 
of Maine has ever had — but also for his simple, demo- 
cratic manner and his fair and courteous attitude toward 
all opponents. 

As United States Senator he was privileged to serve only 
a brief period, but in that time commanded the respect of 
all his associates and filled tlie office to a fullness which 
might have been expected of one who had served so faith- 
fully in other official capacities. 

But the phase of Senator Burleigh's character which 
appealed most strongly to those who knew him best was 
his love of home, and the reflection of his domestic life 
shone through his public career, as a close bond existed 
between the official and domestic atmosphere. The con- 
stant companionship of Mr. and Mrs. Burleigh was a 
charming picture, as she accompanied him in all his 
hardest campaigns; and his children were consulted and 
advised with on matters of interest. It has been affec- 
tionately said of him that his family constituted his 
cabinet. 

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Address of INIr. Fernald, of Maine 



Senator Bureeigh's death is sincerely mourned, and to 
those who knew him best his memory will be cherished 
as a loyal and delightful friend, a congenial associate, 
and a pati-iotic and devoted servant of the people. 

In this world of contrasts — tempest and sunshine, pain 
and pleasure— we know that — 

Every joy must have its sorrow, 
Every pleasure brings its pain; 
To-day is briglit with sunshine, 
To-morrow weeps its rain. 

To-day a smile is playing" 

On the lip and in the eye; 
To-morrow tears are falling 

And the fount of mirth is dry. 

The calm succeeds the tempest, 

As the light the darksome hours; 
On the rough and thorny bramble 

Bloom the sweetly perfumed flowers. 

Life springs from death's cold ashes, 
And in death life's lamp grows dim; 

In Eden perfect bliss is found, 
And from Eden cometh sin. 

And thus in contrast ever 

Light and shadow strangely blend, 
To fit and discipline us 

For life's highest, noblest ends. 

Mr. Robinson. Mr. President, as a further mark of re- 
spect to the memory of the deceased Senators I move that 
the Senate do now adjourn until 10.30 o'clock to-morrow 
morning. 

The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 1 
o'clock and 35 minutes p. m., Sunday, February 18, 1917) 
the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, Monday, February 
19, 1917, at 10.30 a. m. 



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Proceedings in the House 

Monday, June 19, 1916. 
A message from the Senate, by Mr. Waldorf, one of its 
clerks, announced that the Senate had passed the follow- 
ing resolutions: 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of the Hon. Edwin C. Burleigh, late a Senator from the 
State of Maine. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
lutions to the House of Representatives. 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
the deceased the Senate do now adjourn. 

The Speaker laid before the House the following reso- 
lutions from the Senate : 

In the Senate of the United States, 

June 19, 1916. 
Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of the Hon. Edwin C. Burleigh, late a Senator from the 
State of Maine. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
lutions to the House of Representatives. 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
the deceased the Senate do now adjourn. 

Mr. McGrLLicuDDY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- 
sent for the present consideration of the following resolu- 
tions which I send to the Clerk's desk. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolutions. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of the Hon. Edwin Chick Burleigh, late a Senator of 
the United States from the State of Maine. 

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Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased 
Senator. 

Resolved, That a committee of 14 Members be appointed on the 
part of the House to join the committee appointed on the part of 
the Senate to attend the funeral. 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect this House do now 
adjourn. 

The Speaker. The question is on all the resolutions ex- 
cept the last one. 

The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 

The Speaker appointed the following committee : Mr. 
McGillicudd}', Mr. Hinds, Mr. Guernsey, Mr. Peters, Mr. 
Dixon, Mr. Cullop, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Thompson, Mr. 
Evans, Mr. Taylor of Colorado, Mr. Oldfield, Mr. Cannon, 
Mr. Austin, and Mr. Cramton. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will again report the last res- 
olution. 

The Clerk read as follows : 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect this House do now 
adjourn. 

The Speaker. The question is on agreeing to the reso- 
lution. 

The resolution was agreed to; accordingly (at 5 o'clock 
and 22 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned until to- 
morrow, Tuesday, June 20, 1916, at 11 o'clock a. m. 

Tuesday, February 6, 1917. 

Mr. Guernsey. Mr. Speaker, I desire to present a reso- 
lution setting apart a da}' for services on the late Senator 
Burleigh. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolution. 

The Clerk read as follows : 

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Hon. Edwin Chick Blrleigh, a Senator from the 
State of Maine. 

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Ordered, That Sunday, the 25th day of February, at 12 o'clock 
meridian, be set apart for addresses on the life, character, and 
public service of Hon. Edwin Chick Burleigh, late a Senator 
from the State of Maine. 

The question was taken, and the resolution was 
agreed to. 



Sunday, February 25, 1917. 

The House met at 12 o'clock noon, and was called to 
order by the Speaker pro tempore [Mr. Lever]. 

The Chaplain, Rev, Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
following prayer : 

Our Father in heaven, the same yesterday, to-day, and 
forever, increase our faith and confidence in Thee that 
we may be reassured of the eternal values, as we here 
assemble to take cognizance of the life, character, and 
public service of two deceased Members of the Congress 
of the United States, that their work may live as an 
inspiration to those who shall come after them. The 
good men do becomes immortal, since it is woven into 
the tissues of the soul. Quicken all that is truest and 
best in us that we may leave behind us a worthy record 
and build for ourselves a character which shall stand 
the test of time and eternity. Be graciously near to the 
colleagues, friends, and stricken families of those who 
have passed to the beyond, and encourage them to hope 
for a brighter day in that realm where sorrows shall be 
forever banished and love reign supreme. And glory 
and praise be Thine through Him who said, " He that 
believeth on me shall never die." Amen. 

Mr. McGiLLicuDDY assumed the chair. 
The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the 
order. 

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The Clerk read as follows : 

On motion of Mr. McGillicuddy, by unanimous consent. 
Ordered, That Sunday, February 25, 1917, be set apart for 

addresses upon the life, character, and public services of Hon. 

Edwin C. Burleigh, late a Senator from the State of Maine. 

Mr. Guernsey. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolu- 
tion. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the 
resolution. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended 
that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. 
Edwin C. Burleigh, late a Senator from the State of Maine. 

Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory 
of the deceased, and in recognition of his distinguished public 
career, the House, at the conclusion of the exercises this day, 
shall stand adjourned. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate. 

Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to the 
family of the deceased. 

The question was taken, and the resolution was 
unanimously agreed to. 



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Address of Mr. Guernsey, of Maine 

Mr. Speaker: The late Senator from the State of Maine, 
Edwin Chick Burleigh, had a long and a useful life. He 
was born in a little town in northern Maine in 1843, grew 
to manhood, became governor of his State, was sent to 
Congress as a Representative, and finally chosen a United 
States Senator. 

His public service was almost continuous for more than 
40 years. He was chosen State land agent in 1876 and 
later elected State treasurer, then governor of the State 
for two terms. In 1897 he entered Congress and served 
to the time of his death in 1916, with the exception of two 
years. 

No ambitious boy or man could ask more for a public 
career, and during all that period he enjoyed the complete 
confidence and respect of his fellow men. Never during 
all that long service was the honesty of any public act of 
his questioned. 

Gov. Burleigh, as he was familiarly called by the peo- 
ple of our State, was a friend to everybody, and everyone 
was a friend of his. He stated at one time that he knew 
personally 10,000 men in the State of Maine — a remark- 
able fact. 

He was a man who had exceptional ability in making 
and holding friends. He never forgot nor lost sight of a 
friend once made. So great was his personal following 
that in his prime this was a tower of political strength. 

Through the whole period of his public life he was 
aided and advised in political and business matters by his 
charming wife, a woman of exceptional foresight and 
rare ability. Few women possessed keener political sense 

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than Mrs. Burleigh. Tlieir lives were so interwoven and 
their lifework so united and harmonious that when she 
was called from this life the blow was too great and the 
Senator soon followed. 

When I came to Washington as a Member of the Six- 
tieth Congress I found in Mr. and Mrs. Burleigh friends 
at once. He was then serving in the House of Represent- 
atives, and had at that time arisen to be one of its inost 
influential Members. He was serving on important com- 
mittees, and as a new Member I went to him frequently 
for aid and always received it in generous measure. 
I found his advice on matters connected with my legis- 
lative work of the greatest value. After he became Sen- 
ator our relations continued very close, and he often sent 
for m^ to talk over matters of importance to our State 
and ofler assistance that 1 might need. 

His grandfather, Moses Burleigh, was a soldier and 
officer in the War of 1812. When the War of 1861 broke 
out the late Senator Burleigh, true to the traditions of 
his family, went forward promptly and enlisted in the 
District of Columbia Cavalry, but was rejected by the 
examining surgeon. He was as ready and willing to 
serve his country as any man when the dark clouds of 
rebellion rolled over the Republic. He was as ready then 
to do his duty as a soldier as he was in later years as a 
citizen. 

As treasurer of the State of Maine, to which office he 
was elected in 1885, he performed exceptional service. 
He systematized the work of the office, inaugurating econ- 
omies and studied methods that would be for the best 
interests of the State. Being a man of unusual industry, 
no detail of the office was too small for him to consider, 
with the consequent result that the service he gave as 
State treasurer was of great value to the State, and the 
benefits of his work in that office continue to this day. 

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Address of Mr. Guernsey, of Maine 

As a business man Mr. Burleigh had few equals in our 
State. He was careful, conservative, and farsighted. His 
business methods were always above reproach. As years 
went by his business interests became more extensive and 
varied. Through his extensive holdings in Maine timber- 
lands he was interested in lumbering — Maine's leading 
industry. He was a publisher of one of the leading dailies 
of the State — the Kennebec Journal, which was published 
at Augusta, the capital of the State. This paper has 
always had a commanding influence on public questions 
in Maine. 

"When he became governor of the State in 1888, to 
which office he was reelected in 1890, he brought to the 
oflBce not only the experience of a man long familiar with 
State affairs, but also the experience of a broad and able 
business man, with the result that during his administra- 
tion many important undertakings were developed. Re- 
adjustment of the State valuation was imperative, and 
with great care he selected a valuation commission that 
under his direction studied the whole question of the re- 
valuation of the property of the State and equalized taxes. 

His long experience as a surveyor, his large interests in 
a business way made his service to the commission of 
especial value. 1 well remember his interest in the work, 
as I served with the commission in the humble capacity 
of a clerk. Following the report of that commission was 
created a permanent board of State assessors, a move 
which he strongly favored as a progressive measure and 
which proved to be a decided step in advance in the 
equalization of values for taxation purposes. 

In his long political career he engaged in many notable 
political battles. Old-timers tell me that his first cam- 
paign for the gubernatorial nomination was a shai'p con- 
test, conducted with remarkable skill and showed great 
political generalship, which was a characteristic of the 
late Senator, 

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Mkmoiual Addhesses: Senator Bi rleigh 

Although a quiet man, nevertheless he was a man of 
great energj', and he knew men. In 1892 he entered a 
contest for nomination to Congress against the late Hon. 
Seth L. Milliken, who had long represented the old 
" Blaine district " in Congress. The contest was long and 
bitter. In this contest Mr. Burleigh met defeat, but to the 
successful candidate Mr. Burleigh in the following and 
succeeding elections gave unstinted support personally 
and through his paper, and thus won the admiration of 
those who had opposed him. 

On the death of Representative Milliken Mr. Btrleigh 
was unanimously nominated by the Republican Party for 
Congress from the third congressional district. 

Due to a general breakdown of his party in the State in 
1910 he was defeated for Congress and many thought his 
political career was then ended, but in 1912 he consented, 
against his own wishes, as he often told me, to enter a 
preferential primary that year for the nomination to the 
United States Senate. 

It was a three-cornered fight and he was opposed by 
able men. His campaign was fought with the same thor- 
oughness that characterized his previous political battles. 
He traveled from one end of the State to the other by 
night and by day. His correspondence was enormous, 
but before the day set for the primary he had received 
the written pledge of support of many thousand voters. 
It was one of l^ie hardest-fought primary contests that has 
ever taken place in our State. The result showed that he 
won bj' a substantial plurality. 

But the I'oad to the Senate was not clear even then, as 
the primary only expressed a preference to the legislature 
as to whom it should elect. In the legislature a third 
party appeared to hold the balance of power and might 
combine with the opposition and defeat him at the last 
moment, but Mr. Bi'rlek.h, aided by able lieutenants, one 
of whom was the speaker of the Maine house and now a 

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Address of Mr. Guernsey, of Maine 

Member of this Congress, was elected by the legislature by 
a majority of one vote. The battle that day in the Legis- 
lature of Maine was one of the sharpest and most strenu- 
ous Maine has ever known and will long be remembered. 
Mr. Burleigh won what all now concede honestly be- 
longed to him. But the contest was too severe a strain 
on his constitution and precipitated an illness from wliich 
he suffered for a long time. It was his last political 
battle. 

During Senator Burleigh's long service in Congress as 
a Bepresentative and a Senator he was not known as a 
debater but as a Member of great industrj'. He was con- 
stantly on the watch for legislation that might beneficially 
or otherwise affect his State. He was actively concerned 
for every constituent of his. None applied to him without 
receiving prompt and courteous attention. 

The evidence of his work here can be found in the rec- 
ords of his votes written in the proceedings of Congress. 
It can be found in public works undertaken throughout 
the State of Maine by the Federal Government; it is testi- 
fied to by hundreds of old soldiers throughout the State 
and borne upon the lips of thousands of people in Maine 
who have received attention and assistance in their mat- 
ters at Washington. 

His record is the record of a faithful public servant who 
closed his life work with the benediction of " well done." 
The memory of the service and life of Edwin Chick 
Burleigh will always be remembered and cherished by 
the people of Maine. 



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Address of Mr. Peters, of Maine 

Mr. Speaker: Edwin Chick Burleigh, Senator from 
Maine, one of her best-loved native sons, died in office 
June 16, 1916, after a long and honorable public career. 
He came of old New England stock, his paternal ancestors 
having lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and 
Maine, and being prominently identified with the early 
history and public affairs of those States. There is rather 
a striking parallel in the lines of activity and achieve- 
ment followed by his grandfather, his father, and him- 
self. It indicates that in all three generations there were 
strongly developed the same general characteristics which 
made for success in their different and successive periods. 

The grandfather, Moses Burleigh, was born in New 
Hampshire, of Massachusetts stock, and in early life re- 
moved to Palermo, Me., where he resided until 1830. It 
is said of him that he was a man of great natural ability, 
at all times active and aggressive, a born leader of men. 
He was the niost prominent man in his section of the 
State. He was for years chairman of the board of select- 
men. In the War of 1812 he was elected a captain of 
the militia and marched with his company to Belfast at 
the time the British entered Penobscot River and occu- 
pied Castine. He was made a lieutenant colonel in 1816. 
He represented his district in the Massachusetts General 
Court for three years and later in the Maine Legislature 
for three years. He was a delegate to the convention in 
Brunswick in 1816 to canvass the returns of the vote upon 
the expediencj' of a separation from Massachusetts, and 
was one of 103 members who voted for a construction of 
the returns that favored the establishment of a sovereign 
State in the district of Maine. As a contractor lie car- 
rie<l the fix-st mail by carriage between Augusta and Ban- 
gor, it previously having been carried on horseback. In 

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1831 he was appointed assistant land agent of Maine and 
made a good record while in office. He was the first post- 
master of Linneus, in Aroostook County, to which town 
he removed in 1830, and was for many years chairman 
of its selectmen. He must have been a man of energy, 
ambition, and character, having the confidence of his 
neighbors. 

Parker Prescott Burleigh, son of Moses and father of 
Edwin C. Burleigh, was born in Palermo in 1812. He was 
a farmer and land surveyor. He was educated in the best 
academies in Maine and also in Hartford, Conn., where 
he received instruction in military tactics. Bemoving to 
Linneus with his father in 1830 he devoted himself to 
land surveying and became well acquainted with timber- 
lands in northern Maine and their value and during his 
long and active career made many profitable investments 
in that kind of property. He was for many years and at 
various times chairman of the selectmen of Linneus, town 
clerk, town treasurer, supervisor of schools, county com- 
missioner, and county treasurer. In 1839 he was elected 
captain of the Linneus Company of the State Militia and 
in 1840 was promoted to be lieutenant colonel. For 25 
years he was postmaster at North Linneus. He was a 
member of the Maine House of Bepresentatives in 1856 
and 1857 and of the Maine Senate in 1864, 1865, 1877, and 
1878. He was elected State land agent in 1868, serving 
eight years, during which time he was appointed chair- 
man of a commission for the settlement of public lands, 
in which position he did good service to the State. He 
lived to a very advanced age. He followed the footsteps 
of his father in all lines of activity and public service and 
it is clear that he was a man of vigor, industry, good busi- 
ness capacity, and that he to an unusual extent enjoyed 
the confidence not only of his neighbors but of all the 
people in the State. 



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Edwin Chick Burleigh, the son of Parker P. Burleigh, 
was born in Linneus November 27, 1843. He seemed to 
have the same general tendencies and aspirations as his 
father and grandfather. He educated himself as a land 
surveyor. He had sutTicient vision and imagination, 
coupled with hard business judgment, to see the future 
value of the timberland in Maine, which eventually made 
him one of the wealthy men of the State. 

For a while after leaving Houlton Academy he taught 
school, but the war coming on, the military instincts of his 
ancestors controlled him and he went with his brother to 
Augusta and enlisted in the District of Columbia Cavalry, 
but not being at that time in the robust health that he 
enjoyed in later years he was rejected by the examining 
surgeons. Bitterly disappointed in his ambition to enter 
the service, but still eager to breathe the atmosphere of 
military life, he obtained a situation as clerk in the ofhce 
of the adjutant general of Maine, where he remained until 
the close of the war. He then followed the occupations of 
farming and land surveying until 1870, when he was ap- 
pointed a clerk in the State land otTice in Bangor. From 
1876 to 1878 he was State land agent, and during the same 
years was assistant clerk of the house of representatives. 
In 1880 he was appointed a clerk in the otTice of State 
treasurer and moved his residence to Augusta, in which 
city he resided until his death. In 1885 he was elected 
State treasurer. In the conduct of this office he displayed 
those sterling business qualities and excellent judgment 
which always marked him as one of the leading business 
men of the State. He refunded the Slate debt on less 
than a 3 per cent basis as against a 6 per cent basis, saving 
the State large sums of money annually and reducing the 
rate of taxation. In 1888 he was elected governor of 
Maine by a plurality of 18,000, and reelected in 1890 by a 
still larger plurality. 



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His administration of State affairs was wise, construc- 
tive, and popular. His appointments were strong and 
met with public approval. 

In 1892 he was a candidate for the nomination for Con- 
gress, but in a spirited contest, in which there were four 
candidates, he was defeated by Seth L. Milliken, of Bel- 
fast. Upon the death of Mr. Milliken in 1897 Gov. Bur- 
leigh was unanimously nominated by the Republicans of 
his district to fill the vacancy, and he was elected to the 
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty- 
ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses. He was de- 
feated for election to the Sixty-second Congress, but it 
was no defeat for him personally, as at that time Maine 
went heavily Democratic and elected a Democratic gov- 
ernor for the first time since 1880. 

In 1912 he was a candidate for nomination to the United 
States Senate, and in a popular primary, the first held in 
Maine for that office, and, I believe, the first primary ever 
held for the nomination of a United States Senator, he won 
easily after a strong contest, although opposed by two 
men of great ability. He was subsequently, in January, 
1913, elected by the legislature for the six-year term end- 
ing March 4, 1917. His election by the legislature came 
at the end of a long contest of extraordinary intensity by 
a majority of one vote. The Republicans had organized 
the house of representatives and elected a speaker, but 
subsequently the Democrats and Progressives were in 
actual control of that body and it was only by the strength 
of character, resolution, and great organizing ability of 
Gov. Burleigh, coupled with the fidelity and activity of 
his many loyal friends, that saved this seat to the Repub- 
licans and gave Gov. Burleigh the culminating and high- 
est honor of his remarkably successful career. 

Gov. Burleigh, as he is usually referred to in Maine, 
like his father and grandfather, had distinctive qualities 
and capacities which enabled him to serve his State in 

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the various high offices to which he was successively 
elected with much satisfaction to his constituents. He 
never met a defeat at the polls save one, in 1910, when the 
whole party went down. Always a modest man and not 
given to seeking notoriety or to getting into the limelight, 
and never a self-advertiser, he had a stronger hold on the 
everyday citizen of his State than any other public man 
in Maine in recent years. He was very sympathetic with 
and shared the feelings and aspirations of the average 
voter in his State. No public man in Maine ever kept in 
closer touch with his constituents. He specially devoted 
himself while in Congress to the needs of the individuals 
in his constituency. 

He was a great political organizer, of the best type, and 
probably had few superiors in New England. In his 
voluminous correspondence and personal contact with 
his constituents he added always a personal note which, 
with his democratic bearing, tact, and natural friendliness 
of spirit, greatly endeared him to and strengthened him 
with liis people, nor was he ever neglectful of their in- 
terests or their requests. A great number of humble citi- 
zens throughout Maine lost a good friend when Gov. Bur- 
leigh died. He was a man most temperate in his habits, 
careful and correct in his mode of life, which fact and a 
strong constitution enabled him to use his wonderful ca- 
pacity for work and his great executive faculty to the best 
advantage and fullest extent. 

Wliile governor of Maine it came his way to accomplish 
some things of large importance, in the execution of 
which he showed not only Ills characteristic promptness, 
vigor, and capacity, but a great foresight and splendid 
judgment in appreciating the future needs of the State. 
He was largely influential in preventing the removal of 
the State capitol from Augusta to Portland and in ob- 
taining money for and in carrying out the enlargement of 
the statehouse in its present location, all of which saved 

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Address of Mr. Peters, of Maine 



the citizens of Maine probably more than $2,000,000. In 
1889 Gov. Burleigh became chairman of the committee to 
obtain a suitable location for a muster field, and again he 
headed off a movement to establish it in a distant part of 
the State, and upon liis recommendation the site of Camp 
Keyes in Augusta was chosen and is now recognized as the 
most desirable place in the State for the purpose. 

Also in 1889, through the influence of his newspaper, the 
Kennebec Journal, one of the most important and in- 
fluential newspapers in Maine, he called attention to the 
crowded condition of the insane hospital and was instru- 
mental in bringing to a successful conclusion a movement 
to establish another hospital on suitable locations at Ban- 
gor. In all matters of taxation, in handling the State's 
finances and business Gov. Burleigh was an expert, and 
when he came to Congress he was exceedingly well 
equipped for the duties of the office. He was a business 
man and a worker rather than an orator. He was thor- 
oughly familiar with his State and every part of it and in 
close touch with the requirements of his constituents. 
He was of more value to his State and to the country in 
using his high character, good judgment, and business 
training along lines of routine work than are the great ma- 
jority of men who are reputed to be orators. To Congress- 
man Burleigh's ceaseless efforts and influence is due the 
fact that Maine now has four Representatives in Congress 
instead of three. 

With all his success in business, and with all the honors 
that were given him by his native State, Senator Bur- 
leigh was to the end the same modest, sincere, friendly, 
cheerful, earnest, loyal citizen of Maine that he was 
when he first came down from Aroostook County. He 
acliieved great success, but it never turned liis head. 

During his long public career he constantly increased 
the respect, confidence, and esteem in wliich he was uni- 



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versally held by the people of Maine. No histoi-y of his 
State will be complete without giving weight to the large 
part he played in her affairs of more than 40 years. The 
value to the State of his intelligent and efficient service 
will be felt for many generations. 

The State mourns a loyal and distinguished son and its 
people a sincere and faithful friend. 



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Address of Mr. Steenerson, of Minnesota 

Mr. Speaker : I first met Senator Burleigh when he was 
a Member of the House at the beginning of the Fifty- 
eighth Congress. The fact that he represented the dis- 
trict formerly represented by James G. Blaine probably 
impelled me to make his acquaintance. Another reason 
was that the State of Minnesota was settled to a consider- 
able extent by people from the State of Maine. The vast 
forests of Minnesota and its fertile plains attracted set- 
tlers from that State, and they were all well equipped 
for the work of the pioneer. They were successful pio- 
neers, and were among the leaders in the early days of 
Minnesota in the struggle to subdue the forests and the 
wilderness to civilization. Although they did not predom- 
inate in numbers, they soon occupied prominent places 
both in industry and commerce and in politics. As evi- 
dence of this fact I want to cite the circumstance that the 
State of Minnesota has sent five men to Congress who 
were natives of Maine. Gen. John Thomas Averill, a bril- 
liant officer of the Civil War, was elected to the Forty- 
second and Forty-third Congresses. Mark H. Dunnell 
came to Minnesota soon after the Civil War, was elected 
superintendent of public instruction, and served for 14 
years in Congress as a Representative from Minnesota. 
William D. Washburn served six years, being elected to 
the Forty - sixth, Forty - seventh, and Forty - eighth Con- 
gresses, and we afterwards sent him for six years to the 
Senate of the United States. Solomon G. Comstock was 
one of my predecessors, lives in my district, and is the 
first citizen of that part of the State. He served in the 
Fifty-first Congress. Lorin Fletcher, who served for 12 
years as a Representative of Minnesota in the National 

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House, was also a native of the State of Maine. They 
were of a sturdy type, free from affectation or cant, level- 
headed and open-hearted, and democratic in their tastes. 
In Mr. Burleigh I recognized one of these, and I esteemed 
him most highly. 

After a while it so happened that we both lived in the 
same hotel for some years and were associated dailj'. He 
was a member of the Committee on Public Buildings and 
Grounds, before which, of course, every new Member likes 
to appear, and I might say that I appeared successfully. 
Mr. Burleigh was chairman of the subcommittee that had 
charge of Minnesota. So my requirements were suitably 
and fairly taken care of. 

Later on I had some work in Congress in which he aided 
me considerably. As chairman of the Committee on the 
Militia I brought in a bill, I think in 1908, to reorganize 
and improve the efficiency of the militia of the United 
States and increase the annual appropriations from 
$2,000,000 to $4,000,000, which met with a good deal of 
opposition. As a matter of fact, the Republican floor 
leader, the Republican chairman of the Committee on 
Military Affairs, the Republican chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Appropriations, the Democratic floor leader, 
and several other prominent men were strongly opposed 
to the measure on account of economy, as they contended. 
I talked with Gov. Burleigh about it. As governor he had 
taken a special interest in the National Guard of his own 
State and had provided them with an armory and 
grounds. In his quiet, unassuming way he went to work to 
aid me. I am satisfied that it was the work that he did 
which is responsible for my getting the bill through. It 
had to pass under the suspension of the rules, requiring a 
two-thirds vote, in the last days of the session. That we 
secured such a vole in face of such opposition was re- 
garded as almost a miracle. 



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Address of Mr. Steenerson, of Minnesota 

Gov. Burleigh believed that in tlie National Guard we 
had a body of patriotic citizens who voluntarily and at 
great personal sacrifice prepared themselves to serve their 
country in case of war, and that they should be encour- 
aged by both the States and the Federal Government. In- 
adequate as the law may have been, it did actually in- 
crease both the strength and the efficiency of the militia 
and furnished us an Army, at least partially trained, of the 
best material at a cost per man infinitesimally small as 
compared with the Regular Establishment. 

Mr. Burleigh was a loyal Republican. He believed in 
the principles of the party and he was a man of sound 
judgment. We all were anxious to know his views when 
party questions came up. From the biographies and 
eulogies that have already been delivered we have seen 
an outline of his life. His public services, although not 
given the publicity perhaps that they deserved, were valu- 
able and enduring. To his friends the best portion of his 
life consisted of little and unremembered acts of kindness 
and of love which he was always free to give. He was an 
ideal friend, a delightful companion, and a true man. 
His name and works will shed luster on his family, his 
State, and the Nation for generations yet to come. 



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Address of Mr. Austin, of Tennessee 

Mr. Speaker: We have met to-day to honor the mem- 
ory of one of Maine's loved citizens, one of her leading 
and best sons — the Hon. Edwin C. Burleigh, who was an 
honored and distinguished Member of this House for 
seven terms. As one of his colleagues who served with 
him on the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds 
during the Sixty-first Congress, and as an admiring friend, 
I wish to pay my simple but sincere tribute to his many 
excellent qualities of mind and heart. He was in every 
respect an ideal representative of the people. He under- 
stood their wants, sympathized with their aspirations, 
and it was a labor of love with him to champion their 
rights and to promote their best interests. He was a kind, 
frank, sincere man, open, manly, honorable in all his 
dealings in private and in public life. His devotion to 
duty in Maine and here in Washington City is a worthy 
example and a high inspiration to those of us left behind. 
The lesson we inherit from his eminent success in life 
is that if we will follow in his footsteps we will earn 
and receive the plaudits of those who have honored and 
trusted us. 

What a long and useful public career he had, and 
through it all not a cloud or blemish upon his character. 
He was devoted to the interests of the people of Maine, 
and his services to the country at large in both branches 
of Congress were of a high, useful, and important 
character. 

I venture the assertion no State executive of Maine did 
more to originate and pass a greater number of wise, 
constructive, and beneficial legislative measures than Gov. 
Burleigh. His devotion, zeal, and loyalty to the interests 

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of his constituents were well known in this House, where 
he enjoyed the respect, coniidence, and friendship of his 
colleagues for 14 years. 

In the House of Representatives and in the Senate of 
the United States his record for fidelity and usefulness 
was as marked as in the State offices he filled with such 
signal ability and with entire satisfaction to the people 
who made him their trusted leader and their uncompi'o- 
mising champion. The great State of Maine has furnished 
the Nation with many able and distinguished men in my 
time — Blaine, Frye, Reed, Dingley, Littlefield, and oth- 
ers — and to this illustrious list history and the impartial 
verdict of all who knew him will add the name of our 
late admired and loved colleague, Edwin Chick Burleigh. 



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Address of Mr. Burnett, of Alabama 

Mr. Speaker: Hon. Edwin C. Burleigh was born in Lin- 
neus, Me., in 1843. His early education was of that prac- 
tical kind which makes men strong in mind and in body. 
He was a youth of only 18 years when the tocsin of war 
between the States was sounded, but was among the first 
to offer his services for the preservation of the Union. 

When that terrible struggle ended, he returned to the 
quietude of civil life, and by dint of tireless energy and 
perseverance rose through gradual promotion to the posi- 
tion of governor of his native State. 

He was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress and re- 
elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, 
Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses. He was 
elected to the United States Senate in 1913 and died June 
16, 1916, a Member of that great body. It was while he 
and I were serving together in the Sixtieth Congress that I 
learned to know him well. We were both members of the 
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and I served 
under him as chairman of a subcommittee of that com- 
mittee. 

I always found Senator Burleigh kind, liberal, fair, and 
honorable in all our association. He had a heart as pure 
and gentle as that of a girl, and it was always a pleasure 
for me to sit with him around the committee table. 

Although we were members of different political parties, 
I never saw him try to inject partisan politics into his ac- 
tivities on that committee. Although we were from the 
two different extremes of the Union. I never heard him ut- 
ter a word that would tend in the least to stir up sectional 
strife or animosity. 

Above all things he was an American who knew no 
North, no South, no East, no West. 

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Address of Mr. Burnett, of Alabama 

Although a man of few words, what he said showed 
business acumen and a desire above all things to be just 
and fair. 

He loved work and was never more happy than when 
engaged in earnest, industrious efiorts to promote the 
welfare of our common country. 

Although especially alert to the interests of his own 
district and State, he had no spirit of hidebound selfish- 
ness which would prevent his seeing the rights of others 
beyond the limits of Maine. 

No one who knew him ever believed him capable of a 
mean or dishonorable deed. 

Maine has produced a galaxy of great men, who made 
that State illustrious, but not one who was the superior of 
Senator Burleigh in love of country or in high and noble 
ideals. 

A Democratic colleague of his in the Senate from Maine 
a few days ago paid him this true and just tribute: 
"Work was his pastime; success was his reward." 

His history, Mr. Speaker, is inseparably interwoven with 
the history of his great State. Her people were his people, 
her country was his country, her flag was his flag, her des- 
tiny was his destiny, and her God was his God. 

He was an American gentleman in every sense of the 
word, and when that is said eulogy is exhausted. , 

When the inevitable last summons came Senator Bur- 
leigh answered " Ready," and earth was made poorer 
and heaven was made richer when he answered that last 
call. 

He sleeps beside the rolling Kennebec, and when the 
resurrection morn shall dawn Senator Burleigh will 
again answer " Ready." 

I deem it a great, though sad, privilege to be asked by 
his colleagues in this House to pay this my simple tribute 
to the memory of one whom I delighted to call my friend. 



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Lives of great men all remind us 

We can make our lives sublime. 
And, departing, leave behind us 

Footprints on the sands of time; 

Footprints that perhaps another. 

Sailing o'er life's solemn main, 
A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, 

Seeing, shall take heart again. 

Mr. Guernsey assumed the chair as Speaker pro tem- 
pore. 



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Address of Mr. McGillicuddy, of Maine 

Mr. Speaker : The early years of a successful man's life 
are interesting and instructive. It is in this period that 
we so often trace the influences that mold the future 
career. 

Senator Burleigh's life was a conspicuous example of 
this fact. 

He was born and reared on a farm in the fertile county 
of Aroostook, in Maine." 

When we look into the lives of men of great achieve- 
ments in every field of human effort in our country it is 
amazing how great a number of them trace their origin 
to the farm — the best place in the world to bring up 
an American boy. 

It was amid the stern surroundings of New England 
farm life that young Edwin C. Burleigh early learned the 
lessons and formed habits of industry, economy, thrift, 
and self-reliance — habits of life and traits of character 
that followed him to the very close of his career. 

It was in these environments and associations that he 
was brought into close contact with the everyday lives 
of the plain people of his native State. He thus early 
learned to know and appreciate their character, their 
needs, and conditions, and knowing them he learned to 
sympathize with them and to trust them. And they, too, 
in turn learned to know and to trust him. 

This mutual relationship between him and this type of 
the citizenry of his State, thus early formed, grew and 
strengthened throughout his long and successful career. 
It was no small factor in his extraordinary successes. 

The life of Senator Burleigh is an encouraging example 
and an inspiration to every young man. 

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He was preeminently a modest man. He laid no claim 
to brilliancy or genius as these terms are ordinarily under- 
stood. His policy in life was to bring rugged honesty, 
fidelity, indefaligible industry, and the best there was in 
him to the performance of every task and the discharge 
of every duty that was laid upon him, whether great or 
small. He brought the same fidelity, industry, zeal, and 
indomitable perseverance to the discharge of his duties 
in the modest positions of his early life that he afterwards 
brought to the discharge of the great responsibilities of 
his later career. It was characteristic of his life that in 
each position which he held he not only performed its 
particular duties with capacity and efficiency, but he 
reached out and beyond its limitations, stored his mind 
with information, and made each position a stepping stone 
to something higher and larger. 

Among his early appointments to office as a young man 
was that of chief clerk in the office of the State treasurer 
of Maine. He performed the duties of this position with 
such ability and efficiency that he came to be considered 
almost indispensable in the State treasurer's office. He 
remained there for five years and during that time 
acquired such a fund of information and grasp not only 
on the details of the chief clerkship but upon the larger 
activities of the treasurer's office that at the end of that 
time he was by common consent considered the best- 
equipped man in his party in the State for the important 
office of State treasurer. 

In 1885 he was nominated by his party and elected to 
the office of State treasurer. This is one of the most im- 
portant offices in our State. Its activities are State wide 
and, when wisely directed, make materially for the wel- 
fare of the people of the State. He held this office for two 
terms and discharged its duties with such conspicuous 
ability and success that his reputation as a sound, safe 
business man and administrative official became known 

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Address of Mr. McGillicuddy, of Maine 

and appreciated throughout the State, and the eyes of his 
party associates immediately turned to him as the most 
available man in their party for the high office of governor 
of Maine. 

In 1888 he was elected governor by a large vote and 
decisive majority and held that office for four years. His 
large business experience, sound judgment, strong execu- 
tive ability, and high character won the confidence and 
esteem of the people of his State. His administration was 
a strong one, and without taking the time of the House to 
go into the details even of its important measures it is but 
just and deserved to say that he conducted the affairs of 
this office with eminent ability and success. 

At the close of his term of office as governor Mr. Bur- 
leigh cherished an ambition to come to Congress. He 
became a candidate against Hon. Seth L. Milliken, the 
then distinguished sitting Member for the old third dis- 
trict. It was here that Mr. Burleigh met his first political 
defeat. But it was a defeat without loss of prestige or 
honor, and one that eventually turned into victory, for 
Mr. Burleigh accepted defeat so gracefully and supported 
his opponent in the following election so loyally that when 
Mr. Milliken died in 1897 Gov. Burleigh was unanimously 
nominated by his party in the convention and triumph- 
antly elected at the polls as his successor. 

He was elected to seven succeeding terms in this House, 
a marked tribute of the trust and confidence of a loyal 
constituency. 

His service here was one of usefulness, efficiency, and 
accomplishment. No man ever served his constituency 
more faithfully and few more efficiently. 

In the election of 1910 he was defeated for Congress, 
but it was in no sense a personal defeat, nor did it lessen 
his personal prestige or popularity. 

In 1912 he became a candidate for United States Sena- 
tor in the primary election, and had for liis opponents 

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men among flie most able and brilliant of Maine's gifted 
sons. He easily won the nomination, and in January, 
1913, he was elected to the Senate by the State legislature 
for the term beginning March 4, 1913. He served in the 
Senate until his death, June 16, 1916, in the seventy-third 
year of his life. 

Here is a record of public service of more than 40 years, 
reaching heights of distinction rarely attained by men; 
a record of a useful and devoted life without a stain upon 
it; a record of which his family, Ms State, and his coun- 
try may well be proud; a record of virtues and lofty pur- 
poses which we all would do well to emulate; and a record 
for which we all believe he has long ere this received 
that greatest of all rewards, " Well done, thou good and 
faithful servant." 



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Address of Mr. Kahn, of California 

Mr. Speaker : "When I came to Congress, in 1899, Edwin 
Chick Burleigh had already served his first term. He 
came to the Fifty-fifth Congress at a time when the dele- 
gation from the State of Maine had no peer on the floor 
of this House. The late Thomas B. Reed was the Speaker 
of that Congress. The late Nelson Dingley was then chair- 
man of the Committee on Ways and Means, and had just 
written the Dingley tariff law upon the statute books of 
the Republic. The late Charles Boutelle was chairman of 
the Committee on Naval Affairs. The late Seth Milliken 
had but recently passed away, while serving as chair- 
man of the Committee on the Public Lands. Mr. Bur- 
leigh was elected Representative Milliken's successor. 
In the Fifty-sixth Congress, in which I first saw service 
in this House, both Mr. Reed and Mr. Dingley were absent. 
Mr. Reed had resigned and Mr. Dingley had died in the 
closing days of the Fifty-fifth Congress. Mr. Boutelle 
was the only one of the famous quartet that was in the 
Fifty-sixth Congress. 

Mr. Burleigh was a man of comparatively few words. 
He did not often address the House, but he was active 
and energetic in the work that devolved upon him. He 
was particularly interested in preventing the cutting down 
of the representation of the State of Maine from four 
Members to three Members during the apportionment 
fight in the Fifty-seventh Congress. He and the late 
Charles E. Littlefield led that fight on this floor with 
marked success for his State. 

I iiave been in Maine on a number of occasions. While 
visiting among Mr. Burleigh's neighbors it was indeed a 
pleasure to find what a warm affection they had for him. 
They knew and loved him for his industry, for the service 

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he had given his State and his country, and for his steriing 
quaHties as a legislator and citizen. It was but natural 
that his fellow citizens should elect him to the Senate of 
the United States. He had already served them as gov- 
ernor and treasurer, and they knew his worth. They knew 
his business ability. They knew that he was fair and 
honorable and just in all his dealings with his fellow man. 
They knew he had served them faithfully and well for 14 
years in the House of Representatives. His elevation to 
the Senate therefore was a fitting climax to an honorable 
political career. We who were privileged to serve with 
him in this House know that in his death the country has 
lost an able, conscientious public servant and his State a 
distinguished son who had lived up to the best traditions 
of the Pine Tree Commonwealth. 

Mr. Peters. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 
until March 4 the Members have leave to extend their re- 
marks in the Record on the life, character, and public 
services of the late Senator Burleigh. 

The Speaker pro tempore. Is there objection? [After 
a pause.] The Chair hears none. 

The Speaker pro tempore. Under the special order the 
House will stand adjourned until 12 o'clock m. to-morrow. 

Accordingly (at 3 o'clock and 5 minutes) the House ad- 
journed. 



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